PA Press Gallery body office-bearers

LAHORE:Afzal Talib of Journalist Panel has been elected as president of Punjab Assembly Press Gallery Committee while bagging 33 votes against 31 of his rival candidate Akhlaque Bajwa.

On the seat of secretary, Abbas Naqvi of Journalist Panel won the election and got 40 votes against 24 of the runner-up, Wasif Mehmood. The Punjab Assembly Press Gallery elections were held in the PA cafeteria in which 64 members out of total 65 cast their votes. Senior journalist Hamid Riaz Dogar supervised the election process as the election commissioner.

Lahore Press Club President Arshed Ansari, other senior journalists, including Shafiq Awan, Javaid Farooqi, Babar Dogar, Shadab Riaz and Salik Nawaz, were also present on the occasion. Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi congratulated the newly-elected body of Punjab Assembly Press Gallery.